And there shall in no wise enter into it anything
that
defileth
As evil thoughts, words, and actions do; and therefore he that
enters into this city must be free from all these: or "that is
defiled", as the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read; or "that
is unclean", as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; alluding to the
tabernacle and temple, into which no unclean person might come;
see ( Isaiah
52:1 ) . No profane sinner, whose mind and conscience are
defiled, and whose conversation is defiling, may enter here; nor
any self-righteous person, whose righteousness is as filthy rags,
and he himself is as an unclean thing, shall be admitted here;
only such who are washed in the blood of Christ, and have on his
righteousness, and so are without spot or wrinkle; which shows
the pure and perfect state of this church and therefore cannot
design any state of the church previous to the coming of Christ
and the first resurrection:
neither whatsoever worketh abomination;
commits sin, which is abominable in the sight of God, lives and
dies in a course of wickedness; or particularly is guilty of
idolatry, either makes idols, or serves them, or both, which are
an abomination to the Lord; see ( 1 Kings 11:7
)
or maketh a lie;
any lie in general; who is a common liar, loves and invents a
lie, and speaks one; delivers that which is false with an
intention to deceive; or in particular, who embraces and
propagates antichristian lies, doctrinal ones, lies spoken in
hypocrisy; such shall be damned; see ( 1 Timothy
4:1 ) ( 2
Thessalonians 2:11 2
Thessalonians 2:12 ) but they which are written in the Lamb's
book of life; who are predestinated to eternal life; and though
they are naturally, and in themselves defiled and sinful
creatures, yet they are justified by the righteousness of Christ,
and sanctified by his Spirit, and so are made meet and fit to
enter this city; (See Gill on
Revelation 13:8). It is by the Jews observed F4, that
``the Jerusalem of the world to come is not as the Jerusalem of this world; the Jerusalem of this world, whoever would go up to it (or enter into it) might; but that of the world to come, (hl Nynmwzmh ala Nylwe Nya) , "none may go up to it (or enter into it) but those who are prepared", or appointed for it.''